"Girls in Trouble" Concert

Brooklyn poet, scholar, and multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins and her band, Girls in Trouble, present an art-rock song cycle that mines dark stories of biblical women, conjuring up androgynous storm demons, jealous sisters and knife accidents. A classically trained violinist since the age of three, Alicia grew up practicing Bach and sneaking out to Baltimore punk shows. She began touring at eighteen and in 2004 joined the groundbreaking folk-punk group Golem, which reinterprets traditional Gypsy and klezmer tunes with a rock edge. In 2009 she was selected by the State Department to be a musical ambassador for the United States as a violinist, singer, and teaching artist, and performed in Nicaragua, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala as the bandleader of the Hoppin’ John String Band. Girls in Trouble fuses American folk ballads with underground rock to provide commentary on biblical bad girls ranging from the popular to the obscure. Alicia draws on years of study in Israel and a MA in Jewish Women’s Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
A free vegetarian community dinner with the band will be held at 6pm at Hillel House (524 Clinton Terrace, Easton PA). A Q&A with the band will immediately follow the one-hour concert. Doors open at 7pm.
Listen to clips: http://www.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic